Imaginal technology for the map of the day is timed to open. In this way the psychiatrist can work economically with three kinds of black space at once. An economy is a system of apparently willing but actually involuntary exchanges. A family for example, is really a shop-front; a glass plate open to the street. Passers-by might mistake it for a boucherie, splashed as the customers/butcher are with blood. Transactions are frozen in place beneath a chandelier of the good knives.

Bhanu Kapil is a British citizen of Indian origin, in the process of becoming an American citizen. She lives in Colorado and teaches at Naropa University. Her published work includes Autobiography of a Cyborg (Leroy Press 2000), The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street 2001) and Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works 2006).